After a hard time processing loss and change, Chance Cormac, an attorney and author, was now volunteering with the Immigrant Defense Project, filing habeas petitions for immigrants detained by ICE. His latest client is Lyla Abda, a Lebanese doctor on a visa, arrested and detained...

Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Fear is the most prevalent emotion in The Weight of Silence by Alex Baranda, but maybe it’s fear that keeps people alive. Set in 1943, it begins with an elite agent...

In Soundscape by Kenneth Thomas, Nick Stern meets Hannah Wren during a summer archaeological dig in Israel, where a brief academic trip turns into the beginning of a relationship that changes their lives. After a violent attack leaves Nick injured, they return to Wisconsin, carrying...

Dr. Sophia Mendez and Dr. Jolie Harding were working on a vaccine when their funding was cut just before the outbreak of COVID-19. Author D.K. Rivers takes up their story in Remnavax. The London hospitals are overwhelmed with cases. Patients are dying, there is a...

Confucius said, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves,” which is a sentiment one character does not consider in The Reckoning by Ann Nolder Heinz. It opens in 1873 with a mysterious man standing outside a quiet residence, wrestling with a...

Justin is a young sales rep living in New York City and desperately missing his family back home. On a long weekend, one of his colleagues, Trevor, sensing his loneliness, invites Justin to join him at a cabin in the Catskills. Justin has had a...

A long-awaited love is threatened by a stalker in the exciting romance novel, Bet’s Christmas Gamble (Evanston) by Ann Dunbar. Bet has loved Garrett her whole life, but believes he still sees her as a child. For several years, she has been working remotely for...

The Last Heretic by Steve Goldsmith follows Archelaus, a clever and skeptical scribe navigating the dangerous dynamics of early Christianity during the Council of Nicaea. Set in 325 AD, the story moves between political salons, bishops’ chambers, and dimly lit writing rooms, bringing the early...

Misconstrue by Denise Forsythe propels you straight into Cassie Nichols’ reality, and it is not a comfortable place to be. Cassie has been incarcerated for nearly four years for her husband Jake’s death. She’s stuck inside Palmer Women’s Correctional Facility, while her son, Lucas, is...

In Bound By Love, Faith and Hope, the first volume in Maurius Muze's Two Hearts Within One Soul series, after Queen Gelsomina’s death, King Marici’O rules from Turin under the shadow of grief, moving through palace halls and gardens still shaped by her presence. On...